JOIN US ON OUR JOURNEY TO AN OFF GRID LIVING IN THE WOODS OF NOVA SCOTIA…….AND OUR EXPERIENCES BUILDING OUR LOG HOME, ​USING SOLAR ENERGY AND MUCH MORE

Hello Together!

Can you believe it’s already March ?! Well, hope you’re all well and things are going as planned! Something that’s not happening for us right now as we’re still kind of “off” due to the nasty cough that just doesn’t want to go 😦 So, we just do the jobs we have to do and otherwise take a lot of breaks.

Of course for that reason we didn’t get anything major done in the house that we could tell you about. This is kind of frustrating but gave us some time to watch old reruns of one of our favorite series “Timber Kings”. We’d never compare ourselves to what those guys do, but we do see some things from a different perspective now and finally understood what a lot of people told us, having accomplished a lot within these 2 ½ years since we moved back, especially only the two of us doing everything….of course only possible with the support of Emmy 😉

So, as we didn’t get much done this week, we put together some photos to do a little recap of what has been going on here since Sep. 2016

We found our piece of heaven online when we still lived in Sweden and before having a road cut in, lived in a camper ½ km out on a dirt road

After having found the perfect spot we started clearing the land and got the camper in

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We had to rush as we had only two month to get in the foundation before winter

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Besides that we started building a shed to be able to storage all of our boxes that had arrived in a 40 ft. container from Sweden (and btw most of the boxes are still up there 😉 )

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The camper needed a shelter as we planned to live in that during the build……and actually moved out(involuntarily) only two month ago !

Then we had to set up everything for our ground mount solar and the septic system

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But most importantly, Frank got to cut down the trees for our future house and friends helped deliver them to our place and unload

This all happened from Sep – Dec 2016

And here a recap of the “growing house” since then until today

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And for those of you who’d like to see a couple of videos of the build

And here our favorite video……..setting of the last log 🙂

Coming to the end

Hope we didn’t bore you with this “time travel” and see you back next week, with some real new news 😉

WELL DONE; truly amazing what you folks have done…true trail blazers,. seems that cough is going the rounds-mine was last winter, thanks for the photo rewind. spring is getting closer each and every. take care.

Hi Mike,
wow, you make us blush ! Trail blazers……well, our family just calls us stupid 😉
Hope you stay healthy now and I agree ….. every day we’re a bit closer to spring!
Did you get a lot of snow yesterday ? Well, I better get out shoveling again.
Have a great day and stay warm